Oceanic crust generation in an island arc tectonic setting, SE Anatolian orogenic belt (Turkey)


Parlak O., Hock V., Kozlu H., Delaloye M.

GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, cilt.141, sa.5, ss.583-603, 2004 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 141 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2004
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1017/s0016756804009458
  • Dergi Adı: GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.583-603
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

A number of Late Cretaceous ophiolitic bodies are located between the metamorphic massifs of the southeast Anatolian orogenic system. One of them, the Goksun ophiolite (northern Kahramanmara*), which crops out in a tectonic window bounded by the Malatya metamorphic units on both the north and south, is located in the EW-trending nappe zone of the southeast Anatolian orogenic belt between Goksun and Afsin (northern Kahramanmara$). It consists of ultramaficmafic cumulates, isotropic gabbro, a sheeted dyke complex, plagiogranite, volcanic rocks and associated volcanosedimentary units. The ophiolitic rocks and the tectonically overlying Malatya-Keban metamorphic units were intruded by syn-collisional granitoids (similar to 85 Ma). The volcanic units are characterized by a wide spectrum of rocks ranging in composition from basalt to rhyolite. The sheeted dykes consist of diabase and microdiorite, whereas the isotropic gabbros consist of gabbro, diorite and quartzdiorite. The magmatic rocks in the Goksun ophiolite are part of a co-magmatic differentiated series of subalkaline tholeftes. Selective enrichment of some LIL elements (Rb, Ba, K. Sr and Th) and depletion of the HFS elements (Nb, Ta, Ti, Zr) relative to N-MORB are the main features of the upper crustal rocks. The presence of negative anomalies for Ta, Nb, Ti, the ratios of selected trace elements (Nb/Th, Th/Yb, Ta/Yb) and normalized REE patterns all are indicative of a subduction-related environment. All the geochemical evidence both from the volcanic rocks and the deeper levels (sheeted dykes and isotropic gabbro) show that the Goksun ophiolite formed during the mature stage of a suprasubduction zone (SSZ) tectonic setting in the southern branch of the Neotethyan ocean between the Malatya-Keban platform to the north and the Arabian platform to the south during Late Cretaceous times. Geological, geochronological and petrological data on the G6ksun ophiolite and the Baskil magmatic arc suggest that there were two subduction zones, the first one dipping beneath the Malatya-Keban platform, generating the Baskil magmatic arc and the second one further south within the ocean basin, generating the Goksun ophiolite in a suprasubduction zone environment.